sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; “sensitivity to pain”
sensibility, esthesia, aesthesia
(noun) mental responsiveness and awareness
sensibility
(noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; “cruelty offended his sensibility”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sensibility (countable and uncountable, plural sensibilities)
The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity. [from 15th c.]
Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression. [from 17th c.]
(now, rare, archaic) Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional. [from 18th c.]
(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling. [from 18th c.]
(obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses. [15th–17th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Sen`si*bil"i*ty, n.; pl. Sensibilities. Etym: [Cf. F. sensibilité, LL. sensibilitas.]
1. (Physiol.)
Definition: The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
2. The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural. "Sensibilities so fine!" Cowper. The true lawgiver ought to have a heart full of sensibility. Burke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.
3. Experience of sensation; actual feeling. This adds greatly to my sensibility. Burke.
4. That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
Syn.
– Taste; susceptibility; feeling. See Taste.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 May 2024
(adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth’s orbit; “Mercury and Venus are inferior planets”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
